In these dark times, “the light of the public obscures everything” (Heidegger). The refuge that psychoanalysis provided in Freud’s time against the public exposure of everyday life is all the more crucial today given the encroachment of mediatized lives accompanied by the persistent demand to program “a life of one’s own”. Fortunately, the unconscious has no biography and it is unnecessary to sacrifice the truths of desire encountered in an analysis for trumped-up stories. This study group will explore writers, beginning with Freud who, unable to live with what passes for politics, embark upon a journey of psychical emigration and travel through political landscapes, (more…)

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Click Here to Read: Could raising our body temperature treat depression? Hyperthermia could be more effective than anti-depressants, with fewer side effects by David Haggerty on the Massice website on October 30, 2017/

Click Here to Read: First Rock From Outside the Solar System Sails Past Earth: Astronomers were stunned to see the first known object flung through our cosmic neighborhood from interstellar space By Michael Greshko on the National Geographic website on October 27, 2017.

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Click Here to Read: The Real Danger of Trump’s Nuclear Policy Isn’t Armageddon: The president may not stumble into a nuclear war, but he’s setting the stage for a new era of proliferation BY Jeet Heer on the New Republic Website on October 24, 2017.

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Click Here to Read: Ancient Mediterranean Oil Lamps Capture the Pop Culture of Their Time: J. Paul Getty Museum published a free, digital catalogue documenting one of the richest troves of lamps from the ancient Mediterranean world by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic website on October 20, 2017.

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Click Here to Read: Photobooks Designed to Treat Dementia Gently Challenge the Mind: By pairing unrelated images that share surprising similarities, Photographic Treatment by Laurence Aëgerter encourages dementia patients to make their own connections between them, stimulating mental activity by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic website on October 20, 2017.

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Click Here to Read: A Virtual Project Connects Visitors to Holocaust Survivors and Their Stories: New Dimensions in Testimony invites visitors to the Museum of Jewish Heritage to have a virtual conversation with a Holocaust survivor by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on October 26, 2017,

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Click Here to Read: The Sickening Cost of Lenin’s Revolution: Victor Sebestyen’s engaging ‘Lenin’ and Anne Applebaum’s meticulous ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ help explain why a century later the central amorality of the unfulfilled Utopian ideal is still with us By David Mikics

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Click Here to Read: Why Do American Jews Idealize Soviet Communism?: Perpetuating the romance of the Bolshevik regime, whose ‘good intentions’ cannot mask the horrors imposed in its name By Ruth R. Wisse on the Tablet Website on October 22, 2017.

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Click Here to Read: The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea: On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation? By Evan Osnos in The New Yorker Magazine in the September 18, 2017 Issue.

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